Apple launched this week iOS 8.1.1 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch in order to block the solution of jailbreak for iOS 8 – iOS 8.1 made available to users by a team of Chinese hackers about a month ago and updated in the meantime. iOS 8.1.1 blocks three of the vulnerabilities used in the jailbreak solution for iOS 8 - iOS 8.1, and this makes it unusable in the new update, Apple fulfilling its objective. What Apple is doing in the meantime is indirectly supporting the jailbreak by offering the possibility to still install iOS 8.1, although iOS 8.1.1 has been available for almost a week.
Apple supports Pangu jailbreak
Although the Apple company is firmly against jailbreak solutions for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, refusing to allow users to install old versions of the iOS operating system, here it is now making an exception to the rule. Keeping open the possibility to restore to iOS 8.1 even a week away from the release of iOS 8.1.1 allows users to test the new version of the operating system for a good period of time and return to the version that allows jailbreaking using the Pangu solution, many questioning Apple's true intentions.
Although Apple does not admit it and will never admit it, keeping SHSH signing open for an exploitable version of iOS is a favor to everyone who has not yet installed iOS 8 or updated to iOS 8.1.1 .8 and they are not satisfied. Apple had problems in convincing the owners of iDevices to install iOS 7 in their terminals, the adoption rate of the operating system being clearly lower than that recorded for iOS 8, and through this small favor done to users, they are probably trying to generate a slight increasing the adoption rate before jailbreaking becomes impossible in iOS XNUMX for now.
